University Speaking for Everyone: Assessing Changes in Italian Higher Education Statutes toward Gender-Inclusive Language

Sebastiano Vecellio Salto; Camilla Casula; Alessio Palmero Aprosio; Sara Tonelli

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University Speaking for Everyone: Assessing Changes in Italian Higher Education Statutes toward Gender-Inclusive Language

Sebastiano Vecellio Salto, Camilla Casula, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Sara Tonelli

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We examine the editorial evolution of Italian university statutes toward inclusive language, analyzing how institutions represent female and non-binary identities and how these representations affect administrative communication. To this end, we compile and annotate a corpus of university statutes, tracing the changes that have led some universities to move from the use of the generic masculine to more inclusive formulations. We also experiment with tools for the automatic detection of non-inclusive language in institutional communication and methods for the automatic rewriting of texts into inclusive language.

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Volume:: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:: May
Year:: 2026
Address:: Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Editors:: Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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Pages:: 4058–4069
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DOI:: 10.63317/3nhtc8w4hd4i
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Cite (ACL):: Sebastiano Vecellio Salto, Camilla Casula, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, and Sara Tonelli. 2026. University Speaking for Everyone: Assessing Changes in Italian Higher Education Statutes toward Gender-Inclusive Language. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4058–4069, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.
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[University Speaking for Everyone: Assessing Changes in Italian Higher Education Statutes toward Gender-Inclusive Language](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.321/) (Vecellio Salto et al., LREC 2026)

University Speaking for Everyone: Assessing Changes in Italian Higher Education Statutes toward Gender-Inclusive Language (Vecellio Salto et al., LREC 2026)

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Sebastiano Vecellio Salto, Camilla Casula, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, and Sara Tonelli. 2026. University Speaking for Everyone: Assessing Changes in Italian Higher Education Statutes toward Gender-Inclusive Language. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4058–4069, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.